The Left Is Cancelling Dr Seuss

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(04-03-2021, 10:55 PM)samhain Wrote: While I'm for MLB moving the ASG for the reasons they are doing it, I'm afraid the decision will likely hurt they very people they are trying to protect more than anyone.  Atlanta isn't exactly the right-wing epicenter of Georgia.  It's the exact opposite.  Most MAGA types out in rural Georgia could give a shit about whether or not Atlanta benefits from getting the event.  It's a foregone conclusion that both black businesses and black workers in Atlanta will make less money than they would if the event remained.  The mayor seems pretty upset about it, and she most certainly had zero to do with the election reform effort.

The principle is commendable, but the consequence probably doesn't effect the people it's targeting very much at all.

(04-04-2021, 07:10 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: This is definitely the sad reality of any sort of boycott, to be quite honest. I try to explain this to my wife who still refuses to get Chick-fil-A. The amount of money the corporation gets from my number one with a diet lemonade is tiny in comparison to the money in the pockets of the workers and franchisers that are a part of our local economy. This will have a negative impact on the economy of Atlanta and the surrounding area which is a liberal area of the state and was the area targeted by these voter suppression measures.

First I should say I've never taken part in a boycott of a business or place for political reasons.  Ever.

Second if someone doesn't eat at BK because they want them to go vegan they will spend those dollars elsewhere in their community probably on other food.

MLB leaving GA really hurts the businesses and people in GA who would make money off the vent: Hotels, restaurants, even uber and public transportation I'd assume.  *THAT* should reflect on the people in office who chose to "lead" in a way that made companies not want to do business in their state and then voters should remove them for people who will not make such decisions.

In PA every damn election for the last decade was based around who was going to "drive the gas companies out of PA" by maybe taxing them a bit to help clean up the messes they make and the roads they destroy and who was "going to bring jobs to PA".

And the jobs guys keep getting elected and nothing changes because if the gas companies want our product they are here no matter what because the gas is here.  And the jobs don't come because 95% of the prep work to get the gas was done a decade ago.

So what I'm saying is the voters get to decide which is more important: Making voting harder and losing money in the state or not.

Unless the whole making voting harder makes it impossible to vote out the people who did that.